Separation-of-Powers Police

2320.2 - 2347.513 Daryl Levinson

Jealousy just isn't a realistic description of political behavior in our system. And it's not clear why anyone ever thought that would be a realistic description of political behavior. So that's the behavioral part. The normative part is, why do constitutionalists, why does constitutional law, why does the Supreme Court care about what the balance of power is between Congress and the president?